dfranke

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1. 961.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   Screen real estate is like a drug. Addiction creeps up on you quickly, and the more you have the more you think you need. I used to be perfectly content with one 17" monitor. Now I'm looking for a bigger desk so that I can add a fourth 2
2. 962.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   Up to a point, avoiding whitespace does gain you something. It means you can fit more code on the screen at one time. In languages with C-like syntax, I've taken to putting consecutive close-braces on the same line, at the indentation
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   by dfranke 19y ago

   I am.
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   by dfranke 19y ago

   I wish it had more glyphs, though. I like typing math symbols into my code comments. Terminus can't display them.
5. 965.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   DH without authentication still fends off a large class of attackers. Spoofing IPs is hard. Typing 'tcpdump' is easy.
6. 966.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   > JavaScript is just not natively capable of working with numbers as high as this. Implementing multiple-precision multiplication is hardly rocket science. > Why reinvent a great and secure technology like SSL? The overhead of SSL
7. 967.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   Just plain-old username and password. Before launch I'll experiment with running everything over SSL, but it might turn out to be too much overhead for a bunch of tiny AJAX requests. If so, then I'll keep the session in cleartext but do s
8. 968.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   I prefer Terminus or DejaVu Sans Mono.
9. 969.▲
   by dfranke 19y ago

   Hmm. The YC Miss Congeniality awards.
10. 970.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Really? That is a lot. I noticed a factor of two when I moved from CLisp to SBCL, and I was under the impression that CLisp is generally the slowest implementation.
11. 971.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    How do you interact with your REPL? SBCL is designed around SLIME. I find it virtually unusable without it.
12. 972.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    I'll be there.
13. 973.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Just read the W3C spec.
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    I think Haskell is overall terser than Ruby. The trouble with the accgen test is that it's imperative, and Haskell isn't meant to be. Here's the Haskell implementation that I would submit: putStrLn "Don't do that, you nimwit!"
15. 975.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Right now Valleywag is the only killfile-worthy offender that I can think of, but yes, it would be useful.
16. 976.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    I just can't seem to learn my lesson about not bothering to click on Valleywag links with provocative titles. Anyone with more time their hands than I want to write a Greasemonkey script to hide them? You can call it Valleywhack.
17. 977.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Not from scratch. I'm building it on top of Hadoop and HBase.
18. 978.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    I'd call it a database, just not a relational one. It has everything except a query compiler.
19. 979.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    LOLspeak on news.yc. Now I've seen it all.
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    I can't speak statistically, but the one I work for now does and the one I'm about to start will too (but in the latter case I'm writing a DBMS, so that's kind of a pathological example). If all your content is human-generated and O(n) in s
21. 981.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    14 million? Okay, that's not very much. A RAM-based approach is fine there.
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    Here we go again. I'll play my traditional opening move: "How are you handling ACID guarantees?" and then I'll direct you here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59885
23. 983.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Maybe not dumb , but plenty of below-average intelligence. Quoth PG: > One of the most valuable things my father taught me is an old Yorkshire saying: where there's muck, there's brass. Meaning that unpleasant work pays. And more to t
24. 984.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    The solution to this is simply to add the site to your outgoing firewall until you've gotten a good day of productive work done. Afterwards you can remove it and your usage will hopefully return to normal. It worked for me, at least.
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    Humans?
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704 But PG wrote that before he implemented vote weighting. I don't know if he's turned it on yet. If so, it's more complicated now.
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    Mature Optimization(cowboyprogramming.com)

    23 points by dfranke 19y ago|5 comments
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    What do you plan to do differently from the likes of Google Answers that would allow you to deliver on the 60-minute timeframe more often than they did?
29. 989.▲
    by dfranke 19y ago

    Fascinating, but the FT article is not much more than a linkjack. Why not just link to http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/the-new-york...
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    by dfranke 19y ago

    Pedantically you're correct, but on what archictecture/compiler is (sizeof int) != (sizeof size_t), and in what circumstances have you seen this become a vulnerability? (I'm not trying to be argumentative here; I'm legitimately curious.)